Beaver Wars (1642-1698) :: The Patriot Files :: Dedicated.
The French and Indian War, a colonial manifestation of the same forces and tensions that erupted in the European Seven Years’ War, was, quite simply, a war about expansionism.The French and the English were competing for land and trading privileges in North America; which lead to land dispute, particularly the Ohio Valley.Each nation saw this territory necessary to seize to increase its own.